Rough Justice
Locking up offenders does little to prevent crime or make us safer. The history behind our impulse to punish
Read MoreJanuary/February 2013
Special winter double issue: Katherine Ashenburg confronts our fear of fat; Daniel Baird unspools the history behind our impulse to punish; Scott Conarroe photographs the edge of North America; Richard Poplak explains how the success of electronic music heralds its demise; fiction by Kathryn Kuitenbrouwer…
Critical Mass
Writer Terry Poulton found the secret to a happy, healthy life in her plus-sized body. Will the “obesity epidemic” finally force the rest of us to confront our fear of fat?
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Queue Tips
Embedded at a New Year’s Day levee in Prince Edward Island
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Jack in the Box
The popular NDP leader has been dead for barely a year. Is it too soon for a biopic?
Read MoreFeminism 2.0
A new workshop addresses the IT sector’s serious gender imbalance
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The Deadmau5 Trap
How the success of electronic dance music heralds its demise
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The Crossroads
There was a string of kings in Chicago / and I knew a few of them
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